Teenage Popeye - Modern Problems E.P. 7″
August 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Two absolutely awesome tracks: Life Is Cheap which kills and Expectations who destroys. Why did Teenage Popeye have to ruin it with the two other completely shit tracks: Peter Principal = worthless cock rock without the big dick just a moist little penis and She’s Only 16 = crap poop without the hooks. Schizo band indeed. Sad they didn’t stick to what they where good at namely cranking out awesome punk rock.
The sleeve is actually florescent green but my scanner can’t handle it so black and white is what you get.
Pierce McDowell who plays bass now has a project togheter with the former Gong(they did some good stuff back in the 70s) man Gilli Smyth.
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Label: Alien Nation
Format: 7″
Songs:
Life Is Cheap.mp3
Peter Principal.mp3
She’s Only 16.mp3
Expectations.mp3
August 15th, 2007 at 8:58 am
great stuff
August 15th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Agree. Two rocking tunes. The other two made me puke.
August 16th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Wow, someone taped this for me years ago and I have listened to it since then. Now I kind of see why- the vocal style and background singing on “Life Is Cheap” sounds kinda cheesy to my ears, like they’re trying really hard to be punk. “Expectations” is better but not killer for me. But maybe that’s just me. Great band name, though!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I like track 1.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Wow! Never heard that one before, and I’m from Texas. Reminds me of Deprogrammer, another totally forgotten Texas punk band. Thx!
August 18th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Hey, ‘Peter Principal’s’ jus’ fine, thanks! Life is Cheap Trick!!!
August 18th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Well, it’s official: I’m gay, cos the two puke-poop tracks are the only good things I hear outta this mess!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:45 am
i used to live in el paso in the early 90’s and as such have been wanting a copy of this for quite sometime just for the hell of it…”life is cheap” is absolutely killer and has been a favorite ever since i heard it on one of the hyped 2 death comps. i interviewed mike nosenzo from teenage popeye for a zine that fell apart before the issue on obscure tx kbd come out…mike says they also had two 8 and 9 song demo tapes but i never received the tape he allegedly mailed…second rate to the rhythm pigs, but then again were there any other el paso punk bands at the time? probably none documented.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:48 am
February 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
cheap sex in cheap motels, cheap drugs get well
I always loved that tune
March 31st, 2008 at 7:07 am
This is Mike Nosenzo from Teenage Popeye. I agree! Peter Principal and 16 sucked, although D. Byrne (Talking Heads) once told me he liked 16. I have these songs and quite a few other TP rarities on CD if anyone is interested. FYI: still playing in bands and fighting the status quo. check out http://www.myspace.com/divineinfidels
love to all
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I was hanging out in EL Paso back in the 70’s
early 80’s. I was playing in a well known cover
band from there called Ole Scratch. I don’t think anybody gigging around there then had the balls Teenage Popeye did to play the style of punk that they were playing and to see them
live was the real treat. My hats off to those guys
for doing it like they did and not giving a shit
what anybody else thought. Hell, I would see them hauling their gear to gigs in Austin on the City Bus Lines. Fucking hardcore. That was before that Pussy Display SBSW was going on. That was the last time I saw them together. I think that was in 80 81. I have heard Divine Infidels and Mike The Noz is a great song writer. Always has been in my book. Check them out on MySpace. Those guys have a lot of great songs as well. Teenage Popeye was one of the few great things musically to ever happen to El Paso’s music scene in the 70’s and 80’s.Glad to see people still talking about them all these many years later. They must have been doing something right. Keep the flame alive boys. Keep on Rockin.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:32 am
These guys recordings never did them justice. I saw them them blow the Ramones off the stage at a club called the Old Buffalo in El Paso. Fucking great live band
April 8th, 2008 at 6:45 am
FUCK TEENAGE POPEYE!
The RHYTHM PIGS were the only band from El Paso worth a shit.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Thanks Joe for your thoughtful comment. Anything else you would like to add?
April 8th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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April 12th, 2008 at 5:44 am
You losers must be old. AT THE DRIVE IN! MARS VOLTA! Viva El Paso!
April 12th, 2008 at 6:17 am
You Anonymous(winner?) must be young.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Did’nt both AT THE DRIVE IN and MARS VOlTA not
want anybody to know they were form El Paso.
They went up to Albuquerque and both got their
heads handed to them. Albuquerque has had the only
alternative and prog scene happening in the last
20 years.
April 12th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Who?
April 16th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Say what you will, I was there. Volta Schmolta. Teenage Popeye gave birth to the original music scene in El Paso. Case closed. Argue about the best but there’s something to be said for being the first.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Ok, Suze, Anonymous, Joe, Rene, Mike Nosenzo are you sharing computers?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Hmmm…go to Mexico for a couple of weeks and look what happens. Who the fuck are you people anyway? Get a life and put your time to better use. There’s a war to stop!
Mike Nosenzo